Yahoo

What Black women should know about hair relaxers and their health

The damage chemical hair relaxers can have on Black women is coming under intense scrutiny. Several landmark studies have been published in the last year highlighting the link between chemical hair ...
WBEZ

Smooth and straight — and now sick? Thousands of Black women are suing the makers of hair relaxers in federal court in Chicago.

Growing up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood in the late 1990s, Traccye Love wished for the long, smooth tresses of pop star Aaliyah. “That was the look then — smooth and straight,” said Love, of Oak ...
Yahoo

The FDA Could Ban Hair Relaxers With Formaldehyde — Here’s A Look At Black Women’s Relationship With Perms And Relaxers

Creamy crack, perms, relaxers — known by many polyonyms, chemical hair straighteners have been a fixture in the Black beauty space since their inception in 1909. But now, with the FDA proposing a ban ...
Staten Island Advance

FDA considers ban of hair relaxers used by Black women and linked to serious health issues, report says

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Recent studies supporting a long-suspected link between cancer and hair relaxers used by Black women have prompted lawsuits across the country and have encouraged the U.S. Food ...
WWLTV

Rethinking relaxers: Black women’s search for safer hair choices

“I think some women have never even seen their natural hair,” Wright said. “Maybe they were relaxed at a young age, and they didn’t know what it was to take care of their natural curly hair.” It was ...
Chicago Sun-Times

FDA should ban formaldehyde in hair relaxers

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Newsday

Studies link chemical hair relaxers to health risks, spurring shift among Black women

Maria Loren Ackies remembers the first time she went to the salon to get her hair professionally straightened. “I was 14 and I was so excited,” Ackies, 49, of West Hempstead, recalled. But her mood ...
The Grio

FDA’s plan to ban hair relaxer chemical called too little, too late

In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

I started using hair relaxers at age 8. Like many Black women, I paid a price

Across the country, Black women are learning about the health consequences linked with using hair relaxers and are banding together to demand these products – used predominantly by Black and brown ...
FOX13 Memphis

FOX13 Investigates: Health dangers of hair relaxers

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Nearly 90%. That’s how many Black women have used hair relaxers at some point in their lives to chemically straighten their hair. For many, it’s something they started doing as ...
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Hair relaxers cause fibroids in women - See easy ways to straighten natural hair

Natural hair can be difficult to maintain; that’s why most women prefer to use relaxers to manage their hair. However, relaxers are dangerous and can cause fibroids. Fibroids are a non-cancerous ...